TV series
Brotherly love
A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.
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A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.
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Episode 1
Rick and AJ are in Hawaii tailing a con artist who Higgins has just entrusted with $350.000 proceeds from his charity event-the three follow her to South America where they reel her in with a con of their own, using a huge emerald and AJ as bait. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S03E03 Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)
Directed by Lawrence DohenyGuest stars John Hillerman, Joe Mantegna, Morgan Fairchild, Tom Selleck, Robert Madrid
Episode 2
A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jr.Guest stars Charles Napier
Episode 3
Using a psychic in a murder investigation becomes embarrassing to the police but she continues having visions connected with the case, so she hires the Simons to check out her leads when the police no longer will.
Directed by Vincent McEveetyGuest stars Michael Gregory, Joe Dorsey, Greg Finley, Christopher Connelly
Episode 4
The Simons are given 24 hours to recover a valuable painting that was stolen from the Navy museum, and the key to its recovery lies with the feuding daughters of the Navy admiral who donated the painting.
Directed by Vincent McEveetyGuest stars Edson Stroll, Jake Steinfeld, William Long Jr., Luca Bercovici, Jennifer Holmes, Dennis Patrick, Jack Perkins
Episode 5
AJ is robbed while delivering $450,000 in diamonds, and he and Rick have to find them soon, not only is AJ the FBI's prime suspect, they are also on the hook for the first $10,000 of the insurance settlement.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars James T. Callahan, Alan Fudge, Anne Schedeen, Steve Franken, Thom Christopher, Read Morgan
Episode 6
One of the old-time TV cowboys (a Saturday morning hero of young Rick and AJ) is accused of killing his show's producer when a young actor is hired to revive his old role.
Directed by Burt KennedyGuest stars Broderick Crawford, Pat Buttram, Alice Nunn, Jock Mahoney, Stuart Whitman, Bridget Hanley, Don Stroud, Alan Hale Jr.
Episode 7
A woman's frightening dream about her twin sister seems to be coming true when her sister disappears.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Robert Phalen, Lisa Eilbacher, Alex Hyde-White, Jonathan Banks
Episode 8
A friend claims she just seen her dead husband alive. Cecilia Simon enlists the help of her sons when she becomes concerned about her friend's insistance.
Directed by Vincent McEveetyGuest stars Robert Sterling, Don Gordon, June Allyson, Colin Campbell
Episode 9
A pro football player wants to quit fixing the games, but the people who's dirty work he's doing won't let him stop.
Directed by Burt KennedyGuest stars Chick Hearn, Norman Burton, Dick Butkus, Henry Gibson, Gary Crosby, Barbara Lynn Block
Episode 10
Rick's former girlfriend asks him to find her missing husband and then she is arrested for his murder.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Anthony James, Frank Marth
Episode 11
AJ promises to locate a novelist's long-lost cousin within 24 hours, but this tedious all-nighter evolves into a compelling case when several murders are committed exactly as depicted in the author's lastest book, and AJ thinks he's next.
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jr.Guest stars Marie Windsor
Episode 12
AJ poses as a student and Rick becomes a subject in a psychologist's experiment to investigate the death of a track star who died in a suspicious fall from a fraternity house roof.
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jr.Guest stars Lloyd Haynes, Leslie Ackerman, Robert Ginty, Tony Longo, Jeff Lester, Monte Markham, Dean Scofield
Episode 13
Complications from their current case put Rick and AJ before the state licensing board to answer charges from an incident in Florida several years earlier, when AJ was engaged to Janet and working for Myron at Peerless Detectives. The incident is revealed in flashbacks taken from 1980 made for TV-""Pirate's Key"", which was the basis of the series.
Directed by Corey AllenGuest stars Peter Palmer, Rick Lenz, Cassie Yates, Eddie Albert, Claude Earl Jones, Nicolas Coster, Kevin Hagen, Harry Townes
Episode 14
Complications from their current case put Rick and AJ before the state licensing board to answer charges from an incident in Florida several years earlier, when AJ was engaged to Janet and working for Myron at Peerless Detectives. The incident is revealed in flashbacks taken from 1980 made for TV-""Pirate's Key"", which was the basis of the series.
Directed by Corey AllenGuest stars Peter Palmer, Rick Lenz, Cassie Yates, Eddie Albert, Claude Earl Jones, Nicolas Coster, Kevin Hagen, Harry Townes
Episode 15
When Rick's pestering drives AJ to take advantage of mom's offer to share the large suite she was given (instead of a small room) at a northern California resort, he cramps her style when he tries to prove that he witnessed a murder-that nobody will believe really happened.
Directed by Burt KennedyGuest stars Guy Stockwell, Robert Ginty, M.C. Gainey, Gregory Sierra, Robert Clarke
Episode 16
Rick and AJ's good friend, the coroner, asks the brothers to deliver a new video game to Las Vegas and they don't understand just how valuable it is until thieves attack.
Directed by Vincent McEveetyGuest stars Jay Johnson, Tricia O'Neil, Peggy Ryan, Robert Ginty
Episode 17
A clothing design house, featuring a top teen model, hires the Simons to protect its new fall line from being stolen by a rival firm.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Patti Davis, William Boyett, Janet Julian, Arnold Johnson, Dani Minnick, Barbara Anderson, Denny Miller, Tim Considine
Episode 18
AJ pressures Rick into taking the case of a woman accused of murdering the publisher who put her (against her wishes) on a list of San Diego's ten sexiest women, but Rick also investigates their client's mysterious secrets, while AJ is falling in love with her.
Directed by Burt KennedyWritten by Michael PillerGuest stars Cristina Raines, Rebecca Clemons, George P. Wilbur, Richard Anderson, Lynnette Mettey, Dana Gladstone, Don Dubbins, Jimmy Lydon
Episode 19
An amusement park owned by a retired Marine colonel is being repeatedly vandalized so the manager hires the Simons to work undercover but the more they learn about the vandal, the more they question who the real villian is.
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jr.Guest stars Anne Lockhart, Judith Chapman, Ed Lauter, Olan Soule, Richard Cox, Grainger Hines
Episode 20
Rick and AJ are hired to transport a valuable classic car to San Francisco but events along the way make them wonder if there isn't more here than meets the eye.
Directed by Vincent McEveetyGuest stars Natalie Schafer, Albert Salmi, Robert Totten
Episode 21
A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jr.Guest stars Joyce Brothers, Eddie Barth, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Kathy Garver, Odessa Cleveland, Julia Duffy, Terry Wills, Chevi Colton
Episode 22
When Janet is assigned to her first murder case, she wants Rick and AJ to help her build an airtight case, but they've already been hired by the opposition-the accused man's defense attorney.
Directed by Vincent McEveetyGuest stars Cleavon Little, Robert Englund, Eddie Barth, Darleen Carr, William Jordan, Jeannie Wilson, Sam Scarber
Episode 23
Rick and AJ have more than they can handle when they accept a job transporting a huge man who was placed in a mental institution by his brother, only to find out he is as gentle as a lamb, and the trouble they run into against his brother makes them enlist the help of their very huge friend.
Guest stars Richard Kiel, Susan Blu, Dean Stockwell, Edward Winter, John Carter
Episode information updated Sep 20, 2026
Jameson ParkerA.J. Simon
Gerald McRaneyRick Simon
Mary CarverCecilia Simon
Joan McMurtreyAbigail Marsh
Jeannie WilsonJanet Fowler
Eddie BarthMyron Fowler
Tim Reid
Anthony James
CBSUnited States
Universal TelevisionUnited States
